SUBJECT
Particle physics, nuclear physics and astrophysics
laboratory
master
7
Semester 2
Spring semester
This laboratory is aiming to provide those students who are specialising in particle, nuclear or astrophysics with experience in experimental methods. The goal is to study these experimental methods more deeply, and thus the students will choose, according to their interest, only a small number of experiments, but they will spend more time and much more of their own independent effort and research on those, than at a usual laboratory course. These exercises include the following topics: Cherenkov radiation, various nuclear physics experiments with scintillators and gas detectors, measurement of the thermal neutron flux and diffusion length, parameters of late neutrons at nuclear reactors, neutron value and cavity effect at nuclear reactors, exercise to operate a nuclear reactor, criticality exercise and study of nuclear reactor runaway, nuclear analytics, advanced Mossbauer spectroscopy, manipulation of atoms with lasers, astrophysical observational and image processing exerises, study of magneto-hydrodynamical waves.
required readings:
The leaders of each exercise and the course leader will provide personalized and up to date reading material for each student according to their chosen exercises in the beginning of the semester. Each student is only participating in a few exercises, thus we do not specify here a required reading that would be obligatory for everyone.